alien

a. [ OF. alien, L. alienus, fr. alius another; properly, therefore, belonging to another. See Else. ] 1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aliens from the common wealth of Israel. Ephes. ii. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Capability of being alienated. “The alienability of the domain.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. aliénable. ] Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. aliénage. ] 1. The state or legal condition of being an alien. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The disabilities of alienage are removable by naturalization or by special license from the State of residence, and in some of the United States by declaration of intention of naturalization. Kent. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Estates forfeitable on account of alienage. Story. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being alienated or transferred to another. Brougham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stranger; an alien. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. alienatus, p. p. of alienare, fr. alienus. See Alien, and cf. Aliene. ] Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from. [ 1913 Webster ]

O alienate from God. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Alienated p. pr. & vb. n. Alienating. ] 1. To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. [ 1913 Webster ]

The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the present. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]